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Date: 27-Oct-03 @ 11:51 PM -
RE: that gritty sound
yessss.... i love this sound, too. And yeah, it was me that posted the spawn track before, but have never been really happy with how close I've gotten it.
Anyway, I would experiment with dual bandpass filters where you modulate both the cutoff freq of each filter as well as the seperation between the two filter cutoff points. This will make it "speak"
For the growl, I would mess about with square waves with pulse width modulation. Basically instead of a 50/50 square wave you want more like a 10/90 one, with the smaller percentage being the rising side of the wave. If this doesn't make sense to you let me know and I'll try to elaborate. But I often get a grittier wave this way than compared to saw waves.
Finally, this one sounds like it has some chorus or possibly unison on it. But generally these kinds of touches are thrown in for individual notes to accent.